by priyatham | Feb 1, 2017 | Featured News
Dr. Murphy reported to the board that both clinic sites see roughly 100 to 120 patients per day and checks the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program database (PDMP) 20-30 times each day. However, the board points to information from the database, which is starkly...
by priyatham | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured News
Fraction of Americans With Drug Addiction Receive Treatment, Surgeon General Says – NY Times The majority of people who misuse substances do not develop a use disorder, the report said. But roughly one in seven Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — are...
by Rick Bunker | Dec 27, 2016 | Featured News
Dublin-based healthcare giant Cardinal Health on Friday agreed to pay $44 million to settle multiple lawsuits regarding the distribution of various controlled substances. Cardinal Health admitted that it failed to report large orders for powerful painkillers like...
by Rick Bunker | Dec 22, 2016 | Featured News
2016’s Top 5 Advances in Primary Care Opioid crisis and what to do about it tops list MedPage Today asked specialists in primary care around the country to tell us what they thought were the most important clinical developments in 2016. These were the five most...
by Rick Bunker | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured News
The Staggering Costs, Monetary and Otherwise, of Substance Abuse A new report from the Surgeon General says the country spends $442 billion a year in dealing with drug and alcohol abuse. There are so many issues dividing America right now. But there is a terrible...
by Rick Bunker | Dec 17, 2016 | Featured News
Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015 The U.S. opioid epidemic is continuing, and drug overdose deaths nearly tripled during 1999–2014. Among 47,055 drug overdose deaths that occurred in 2014 in the United States, 28,647...
